Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the lights of other ships passed, but nobody heard the hoarse hails of the men in the schooner's rigging. After a while one man lost his numb hold, dropped into the black water. Another followed-another, and another. When a man dropped, the others heard a brief thrashing in the water, then silence. One who let go was 60-year-old Mandea LeBlanc, who had hoped this would be his last voyage to the banks. Shortly afterward, Captain Wilson followed...
...Ambassador to Paris, Count Fernand de Brinon, was back there from Berlin with Hitler's terms of "collaboration." The Marshal anxiously awaited the coming to Vichy of this onetime payoff man for Georges Bonnet who now held France's fate in his brief case. Hitler's terms were reported to include a demand that German troops be allowed to cross Tunisia from Sicily for an attack on the British in Libya. This proposition was made to the Marshal by his ousted Vice Premier Pierre Laval when the two met at La Ferté a fortnight ago. Then...
After this sad record was spread out, FTC officials admitted last week they had "slipped badly," said they would reorganize their legal setup so that no FTC lawyer would ever go to court again with sieve instead of brief. But Mr. Kidder was left to wonder whether he had won anything but a moral victory. Said he: "The FTC [was] about as successful in putting us out of business as they would have been had we not appealed...
Their stay as guests of Harvard will be brief. After visiting the University this morning, and lunch at Dunster House, they will leave immediately by auto for North Conway, New Hampshire, where they will remain until the Dartmouth Carnival on the week-end of February...
...After a brief welcome by Jerome D. Greene '04, Secretary to the Corporation, and Dean Chase, the group was whisked through Widener and then divided up for lunch, the boys going to Dunster House and the girls to Radcliffe...